To make way for a historic impeachment trial, the Senate is undergoing a physical makeover, with custom tables for the prosecutors, cubbies for senators’ phones and quarters for the chief justice.

The United States Senate was explicitly designed to be undemocratic. It represents states, not people. Population-wise, some states are the size of large cities, others the size of large countries.

But when he rose to the rostrum in the Senate on June 29, 1945, Vandenberg told his colleagues in no uncertain terms to ratify the charter that would establish the United Nations.

Ohio voters guide: United States Senate. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, was first elected in 2006, unseating then-Sen. Mike DeWine in a wave year for Democrats across the country.